Hay-elevator.



No. 690,660, Patented Ian. 7, I902.

J. N-EY.

HAY ELEVATOR.

(Application filed Oct. 8, 1901.) ("0 Model.) 6 3 Sheets-Sheet I.

No. 690,660. Patented Ian. 7, I902. J. NEY.

HAY ELEVATOR.

(Application filed Oct. 8, 1901.) (No Model.) I 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 d114006 JVy,

No. 690,660. Patented Ian. 7, I902.

' J. NEY.

)IAY ELEVATOR.

v (Application filed Oct. 3, 1901.) (No Model.) 3 Shasta-Shoat 3.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE; I

JACOB NEY, OF CANTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE V. L. NEY COMPANY, OFCANTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.-

HAY-ELEVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,660, dated January7,' 1902. Application filed October 3, 1901. Serial No. 77,396. (Nomodel.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, J AOOB NEY, a citizen of the United States, residingat Canton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Hay-Elevators; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, and to the'figures of reference marked thereon, inwhich- Figure lisa side elevation showing the carriage looked upon thetrack or way. Fig. 2 is a vertical section showing the carriage lockedto the track or way. Fig. 3 is an end View of the carriage, showing atransverse section of the track or way and illustrating the trip-barplaced in operative position. Fig.

4. is a detached view of the carriage-releasing lever. Fig. 5 isadetached view of the upper or stop-block-engaging dog. Fig. 6 is adetached view of the push dog or head. Fig. 7 is a detached View of theinterposed carriagereleasing and ropegri'poperating device. Fig. Sis adetached view of the rope-gripping shoe. Fig. 9 is a detached view ofthe lower or register-head-engaging dog.

The present invention has relation to hayelevators designed and arrangedto release the carriage from a fixed point upon the track or way at anypoint between the starting and stopping point of the load to be elevatedand to release the carriage from the track or way when the register-headhas become connected with the carriage; and the invention consists inthe different parts and combination of parts hereinafter described, andparticularly pointed out in the claims.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 represents the track or way, which issupported in an elevated position in the usual manner and upon whichtrack or way the carriage travels back and forth over the place orplaces where it is desired to deposit or drop the loads to be elevatedand deposited.

The carriage proper, -as shown, is formed of two sections 2 and 3, whichsections are swiveled together by means of the tongue and of thecarriage.

groove 4; but the purposes of the present invention can be carried outwithout any reference to the exact construction of the frame I have,however, illustrated a reversible carrier or one designed to deposit theloads elevated upon either side of a driveway, which driveway usuallyconsists of the ordinary-barn-floor, with mows located upon oppositesides thereof.

To the track or way 1 is connected, in any convenient and well-knownmanner, the stopblock 5, which stop-block may be provided with anintegral hanger portion 6; but this is not necessary unlessit is desiredto support the track above the stop-block.

To the lower section 3 of the carriage-frame are pivotally connected thedogs 7 and 8. The dog 7 is calculated to engage with the stopblock 5 andis brought into the position illustrated in Fig. 2when the carriage islooked upon the track or way. The dog 8 is located below the dog 7 andin operative contact with the dog 7. The dog 8 is provided with theregister-head-engaging hook 9. The interposed carriage-rel'easing deviceis located between the pivotal points of the dogs 7 and 8, and itconsists of two parallel bars 10 and 10, spaced from each other bycross-bolts or rivets 11, 12, 13, and 14:.

To the lower member of the carriage-frame 3 is pivotally connected thepushdog 16,which push dog or head is pivotally connected to thecross-bolt or rivet 11 of the interposed carriage-releasing device. Thepush dog or head 16 is provided with the arml7, to which arm areconnected the elevating-rope-connecting link or eye 18 and theelevating-rope 19, connected to the link or eye, which elevatingropeextends downward and under the elevating-block 20, and thence upwardover the pulley 21, and thence to the point where draft is to beapplied. It will be understood that the pulley 21 is to beproperlyjournaled upon a suitable shaft 22, which shaft is connected tothe lower member of the frame 3.

To the side of the lower member 3 of the carriage is pivotally connectedthe carriagereleasing lever 23, which carriage releasing lever issubstantially of the form shown in Fig. 4, and, as shown, its innerupper end is provided with the antifriction-roller 24.,whichantifriction-roller is located against the edge of the stop-bar 15 ofthe carriage releasing device when said lever is in its normal positionor, in the position to hold the carriage looked upon the track or way.The stop-bar 15 extends from one of the parallel bars of thecarriage-releasing device and is located adjacent to the inner end ofthe re1ea-sing-lever23.

The carriage-releasin g lever 23 is preferably extended downward fromits pivotal point, so as to bring it in better position to be operatedby the trip-bar 25, which trip-bar is op; erated by means of thetrip-rope 26, which trip-rope extends upward over a pulley 27 and isconnected to the trip-bar 25 in any convenient and well-known manner. I

The trip-bar 25 is pivotally connected at its outer end, so as to givesaid trip-bar a horizontal swinging movemenhand thereby insure thepassage of the carriage back and forth upon the track or way without anyinterfer ence with said trip-bar.

I do not desire to be confined to the exact arrangement of the trip-bar25 shown in the drawings, as the only object of said trip-bar is toprovide one means of elevating the carriage-releasing lever 23, as itwill be understood that the carriage releasing lever may be elevated torelease the carriage in many ways; but I have illustrated one means forelevating the lower end of the carriage-releasing lever for the purposeof showing how said lever may be elevated to release the carriage.

When the carriage-releasing lever is in the position illustrated in Fig.1, the interposed carriage-releasing device is locked against endmovement, and at the same time said interposed carriage-releasing deviceis held in a position to hold the brake-shoe 28 out of contact with the,elevating-rope 19, so that said elevating-rope is free to move aroundthe pulley 21 in the ordinary manner. The brake-shoe 28 is pivotallyattached to the parallel members 10 and 10 of the carriage-releasingdevice.

It will be understood that when the carriage-releasing device,consisting of the parallel bars 10 and 10, is held against end movementthe downpull of the elevating-rope 19 upon the link 18 will not permitany independent movement of the push dog or head 16, and when theregister-head 29 is to be engaged with the hooked end of the dog 8 thereis no movement of the interposed carriage-releasing device; but saiddevice remains at rest at all times until the lower end of thecarriage-releasing lever is elevated; but when the lower end of thereleasing-lever 23 is elevated its upper end, which is provided with theantifriction-roller 24, is lowered, so as to bring it out of contactwith the bar 15, so that the interposed releasing device is free to movetoward the pulley 21 and clamp the elevating-rope 19 between the shoe 2Sand the pulley 21. The moment the interposed :releasing device is freedby elevating of the lower end of the release-lover 23 and lowering theinner upperend thereof the downpull of the elevating-rope will lower thearm 17, which in turn moves the dog 8 upon its pivotal point and bringsthe upper end of the dog 8 from under the antifriction-roller 30, whichantifrictiou-roller is journaled to the dog. 7. As the push dog or head16 ismoved toward the pulley 21 it moves the dog 8 by means of thecross-bolt or rivet 12, and for the purpose of insuring the propermovement of the dog 7 to release the carriage from the stop-block 5 saiddog is provided with the downward-extending arm 31, whichdownward-extending arm is so located that the bolt or rivet 13 willswing the downward-extending arm 31, by which arrangement the movementsof the dogs 7 and 8 are made positive and certain. \Vhen thedogs 7 and 8have been moved by the forward movement of the carriage-releasin gdevice, the dog 7 will be brought into a position to be released fromthe stop-block 5, at which time the carriage is free to move upon thetrack in the direction of the pull of the elevating-rope, and when thecarriage is returned the stop-block 5 will bring the dog 7 into properposition to lock the carriage 11 port the stop-block, and thedownward-extending arm 31 will move the interposed releasing device awayfrom the elevating-rope and release the dog 8, so that its top orupperend will come under the friction-wheel 30 of the dog 7, asillustrated in Fig. 2, and allow the inner upper end of the lever 24 tomove upward, so as to bring the antifriction-roller 24: directly infront of the cross-bar 15.

It will be understood that the lower end of the lever 23 should be ofsuch a weight that it will. fall by gravity when the bar 15 is broughtfrom under the upper end of said lever.

It will be understood from the above description that when thecarriage-releasing lever 23 is elevated at its bottom or lower end thecarriage will be released from the stopblock upon the track or wayregardless of the register-head 29 and that it is immaterial as to thelocation of the register-head or the load being elevated, so that by mypeculiar arrangement I am enabled to release the carriage and lock theelevating-rope to the carriage at any desired time during the elevationof the load and before the register-head 29 has become engaged with thecarriage.

If it is desired to engage the register-head with the carriage and lockthe load to the carriage, no attention is paid to the trip-rope 26,

i and no independent movement is imparted to the lever 23 or to thecarriage-releasing de vice, consisting of the parallel bars 10 and 10,and no independent movement is imparted to the push dog or head 16; butthe dogs 7 and 8 are operated by the register-head 29 coming in contactwith the bottom or under side of the arm 39 of the dog 8, which elevatessaid arm, throwing the upper end of the dog 8 from under the dog 7,which releases said dog from the stop-block 5. The operation j ust abovedescribed is the ordinary operation and the same that it would bewithout the interposed releasing device, consisting of 5 the parallelbars 10, the lever 23, and a tripbar or other device to lift thecarriage-releasing lever 23.

For the purpose of providing a means for holding the forward ends of theparallel bars 10 in proper relative position the lugs 33 are provided,which lugs are located directly under said parallel members 10.

For the purpose of allowing the rope-clamping shoe 28 to have a yieldingmovement be- I 5 tween the parallel bars'lO and itself sa-id shoe ispivotally attached to said bars.

Having fully described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is 7 2o 1. Inahay-elevator,a track or way,atravelving carriage mounted upon the track or way,

a stop-block fixed to the track, a dog adapted to lock the carriagetothe stop-block, and a register-head-engaging dog, a register-head 2 5engaging the dog and a carriage-releasing device located intermediatethe dogs, said releasing device provided with a brake-shoe,substantially as and for the purpose specified. 2. In a hay-elevator ofthe class described, 0 a track provided with a stop-block, a carriagemovable thereon, dogs carried by the traveling carriage, acarriage-release lever pivotally connected to the carriage-frame,parallelv bars provided with a stop-bar, a rope-clamp- 5 ing shoepivotally connected to the parallel bars and a push dog or headconnected to and carried by the parallel bars, and an elevating ropesuspended from the push dog or head, substantially as and for thepurpose specified. 4o 3. In a hay-elevator the combination of a track orWay provided with a stop-block, a carriage located thereon, saidcarriage provided with a release-lever and means for releasing the leverfrom engagement with the 5 interposed carriage releasing device, a dogadapted to lock the carriage in fixed position upon the trackindependent of the register- 5. In a hay-elevator the combination of atrack or way provided with a stop-block, a

carriage-locking dog carried by the carriage and provided with adownward-extending arm, sliding parallel bars spaced one from the otherand provided with a bolt or rivet adapted to engage thedownward-extending arm of the carriage-locking dog, a push dog or headpivotally connected to the carriage and to the spaced parallel bars, oneend of the elevating-rope suspended from the push head or dog, and aregistering-head-engaging dog and a pivoted lever carried by thecarriageframe and adapted to lock the parallel bars against endmovement, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

6. The combination of a traveling carriage mounted upon a track or way,a stopblock fixed to the track or way, a dog carried by the carriage toengage the stop-block and lock 30 the carriage, a register-head-engagingdog carried .by the carriage and in operativeposition with thecarriage-locking dog, and the dogs adapted to operate with contact withthe registering head and independent of the in-. terposedcarriage-releasing device, and an interposed carriage releasing devicesubstantially as and for the purpose specified.

7. The combination of a track or way provided with a stop-block, acarriage mounted o thereon and provided with a carriage-locking dog anda register-head-locking dog, and an interposed carriage-releasing deviceprovided with a push-dog and an elevating-'ropeeclamp shoe carried bythe interposed carriage-re- 5 leasing device, and a lever adapted tolock the carriage releasing device against end movement and to releasethe interposed releasing device, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

8. The combination of a track or way provided with a stop-block, acarriage mounted thereon, means for locking the carriage to the stop-block, a sliding carriage-releasing device adapted to be operated bythe downpull of the elevating-rope to release the carriage and lock theelevating-rope, and a lever carried by the carriage adapted to lock thecarriage-releasing device when in normal position and to release thecarriage from the :10 track or way and lock the elevating-rope when outof normal position, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence :15

of two witnesses.

JACOB NEY. Witnesses:

J. A. JEFFERs, F. W. BOND.

